Thudd

jeremy?

this one went to my school. we sold him to you then loaned him back for the season: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Walker

this one we sold to you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Naughton. but not much sign of him in the team yet.

Walker in particular is hilarious.

good touch for a lad who runs the 100m in about 10.5.

naughton has had a few appearances, i think he's got a good choice of being the backup right back next season (hutton rubbish) if the whispered micah richards move doesn't materialise.

think he's got a sub appearance or two at right mid as well, so looks like he's at least going to get first team exposure while we see how he develops.

i wonder if he is friends with thudd

We need a new footballing mascot every season really Kitson -> Bullard -> Thudd.

I tried to do it with qualified chemical engineer Lolofinjana last season but it didn't quite work :(

Also, only player to start every single game this season. I feel bad for not having paid enough attention to him but maybe its because he hasn't played as many of the 40-yard wonderpasses.

Where's that picture of Huddlestone and Lennon wearing pink shorts and playing in the sea? It needs to be here.

there's the one with his overhang gut in pink shorts on the other thread.

Also, only player to start every single game this season.

palacios/thudd such a *huge* improvement on zokora/jenas. 90% of our improvement on last few seasons right there.

Best thing about this is that Modric is still to come.

could spell trouble for thudd, that, even though i'm assuming it's krancjar that'll make way.

but either way

                             ^
                             |
modric ---->              Lennon
              Thudd
  <--------- Palacios ---------->

compares pretty well to last season's starting midfield, or any midfield going back to carrick, david et al

Krancjar Out?

(wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes tbh, just showing his movement doesn't do him full justice i feel)

krancjar isn't likely to start ahead of modric, but the question might well be determined by form, fitness and the opposition. i don't think he'll lack games, given that he can play behind the striker or on either wing.

I'm a full convert to Kranjcar after his performance last week - not sure you can work him and Modric into the same team but he's way better than Robbie Keane or for that matter Lennon either out on the left or in the hole.

wish i knew how to graphically illustrate thudd's sweeping passes

Maybe a cross between an elephant and a flamingo?

eh, using only the /code/ tags, that'd be pretty good work

krancjar is great, but he is essentially a not-quite-as-good modric, so fitting them both in poses questions.

they play together for croatia, right? might be worth looking into. could be our own xavi-iniesta axis right there, BUT WITH THUDD. my god, it's a monster.

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new club crest imo

great work here today.

This is a banner day for ILX football threads.

we need to get more of the mainstream traffic on to the thudd thread, i firmly believe, as stated, that he could be the player to get the yanks behind soccerball once and for all.

I like that LJ's mod request managed to get Thudd's picture in the admin log, twice!

It should come up on the 'confirm ban' page.

Are you sure you want to ban this poster?

I mean, look at Thudd, a few short months ago people suggest banishing him to the reserves for being fat and rubbish and yet here he is now:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/11_01/101huddleston_468x811.jpg

the very definition of the beautiful game

he is quite fat

who dared suggest ban thudd? he's always been the heir apparent to pirlo as the world's best quarterpounder

yes, but not rubbish
xp

pirlo is half the man thudd is

takes better set pieces, though. i'll give him that.

He also has swooshy hair

Apps  Gls    Ass
231   11     22 

231 appearances? Guy isn't 23 until December.

Ass
22

I think he's fiddling his vital statistics

22 kilos, imo

the affection for this guy is one of the most boring ilx memes imaginable...plus the moniker.

lol u jealous even lucas's girlfriend thinks of long tom thudda when it's time to put out

doubt lucas has a gf

Tom would improve the current Liverpool team no end, srsly.

To be honest I doubt Two Minute Tom has a girlfriend either.

Cannot believe he's still 22, it feels like a decade ago when he was at the Wolves.

can't find a decent youtube clip of it, but his strike against sunderland a few weeks ago was very nice.

his performance yesterday was pretty decent, although he should have buried that chance

We expect more than "pretty decent" from an icon when Dave Kitson's banging them in for fun in the Champ.

long time since anyone acknowledged thudd as the best passer in england

After Tom Huddestone struck a shot of such inaccuracy that it didn't even go out for a goal kick, Kranjcar was able to meet it, loft his cross into the middle and watch Crouch out-jump Ryan Nelsen to head in via the bar.

such libel! tommy obviously meant to hit it all the way to niko in the corner.

yeah wtf text guy watch ur back on the internet from now on

Is THUDD's birthday today! Happy birthday THUDD!

thudd hb motm imo